Wij kunnen allemaal gerust wat aanmoediging gebruiken. Ook Kris Belfils in How To Encourage Yourself In The Lord vindt dat ieder van ons aanmoediging nodig heeft. Het is een instrument dat ons vertrouwen doet toenemen en ons inspireert om op te treden met moed, moed en kracht. Dat is wat we nodig hebben!
Als voorbeeld kijkt ze nara koning David. David leerde de mogelijkheid om iets te doen in het gezicht van het diepste verraad en afwijzing. Toen hij helemaal alleen stond, dat is wanneer David “zich gesterkt” vond “in de Heer zijn God.”
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We don’t need anyone around to discourage us… instead we need encouragement. First and foremost we need to learn how to encourage ourselves. We are the only person we are with twenty four hours each day, seven days a week: 24/7 is our time with ourselves. We need to be equipped with tools to help us minister to ourselves.
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Before David was king in the Old Testament, God brought him through many difficult trials, hardships, rejection, and pain. We all know David as a “Man after God’s own heart.” His relationship with the Lord was highly unusual for his day because the entire outlook for worship in Israel at the time was focused on the sacrifice of animals to temporarily deal with sin, and not the sacrifice of praise from the heart.
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You will be challenged from day to day. We are not promised that our days will always be blissful and peaceful. As you go through your day you may encounter things which make you cringe, or things that are wrong or ugly. Deal with these as you must, but do not let them become your focus. Remember that almighty God is with you. Can you hear Him say to you, “Look the right way?” Remind yourself of how faithful God has been in your life and set your gaze in that direction. God will be faithful again because it is his character.

Volgens graceindallas in Pastor Posts heeft God heeft ons niet alle stukken gegeven waardoor wij niet in staat zijn om het hele plaatje te zien. We kunnen niet en zullen nooit alle antwoorden of redenen waarom er lijden en pijn in de wereld is begrijpen. Echter kunnen wij wel Gods Stem horen om zo toch enkele antwoorden te horen. God heeft ons een aantal van de puzzel stukken gegeven en laat ons toe om een deel van de foto te bekijken. Hoewel het beeld onvolledig is gelooft de auteur echt dat wat God heeft geopenbaard over pijn en lijden in Zijn Woord genoeg is om onze harten te voldoen in dit leven.
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What if we are all babies in the arms of a loving father who knows what’s best for us and is allowing suffering because He has a bigger plan and purpose that is for our own good? What if God is allowing or even using suffering to do something amazing in our life that couldn’t happen otherwise? What if God, like a loving father, is holding us during our suffering and saying “Trust me, it’s going to be ok, I know what’s best and I have a perfect plan.”

@homelesscrisis vraagt zich af in Jesus, the SON of the Almighty God…is God? wie er eigenlijk tot wie praat en als Jezus, de Zoon van de Almachtige God is maar ook zichzelf de Vader in de hemel is hoe kan er dan gepraat en geantwoord worden en als Jezus ook onze Schepper God is hoe kan hij dan tegelijkertijd op de Hoofdtroon zitten en naast Zichzelf zitten?
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(If Jesus is our Creator God, is he now sitting next to Himself? Did he take himself up?) This is selling short both Jesus and His Father. This is not to be taken lightly by you and i as Jesus and His Father do not take it lightly at all.

Ook Mathew Gilbert ziet hoe we allemaal koppig en opstandig zijn, net als Israël, en onze geesten niet trouw zijn aan God. In Meditation on Psalm 103: Glorious Contrast wijst hij er op dat wij Gods werken vergeten hebben. Wat diep contrast in de koppigheid en hardheid van de mens met de genade en barmhartigheid van God, die wordt gevonden in Psalm 78. God, aan de andere kant is “zeer groot” en bekleed met “pracht en majesteit” (Psalm 104:1). Hij is de soevereine Heer van heel de schepping als Psalm 104 mooi illustreert.
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We have rebelled against a truly holy and righteous God. I see the story of my life like that of Israel’s: “Yet they sinned still more against the Most High in the desert” (Psalm 78:17). “In spite of all this, they still sinned” (Psalm 78:32). Despite witnessing the power, glory, and splendor of God in all of his mighty works, Israel sinned, and more personally, I have sinned. O, how tremendous the contrast is which stands between unworthy sinners and a perfectly holy God. What is it that puts it all together? What brings sinners to the point at which we can “delight in the law of the LORD”, “give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart”, and be considered righteous rather than wicked (Psalm 1:2; 111:1)? Nothing but the sovereign mercy and grace of God in our great propitiator, Jesus Christ.

whether you are alone right now, or just feel lonely and forgotten on any other day of the year, watch this video and keep in mind that God, the Creator of the Universe, put this all together for your enjoyment.
Allow it to minister to those deep places in your heart, and instead of focusing on what you don’t have, let it minister God’s love to you and enjoy the beauty of His handiwork. After all, He created it all for you and me to enjoy!

Lead By Following The Word!… laat zien dat wij ons moeten durven over geven aan de visie van God.
There are ways in which God desires to bless us. They often time do not manifest the way we think they will. You have to trust the visionary (God). He is the one with the vision. It is NOT your vision; it is His. You must surrender to His vision for your life. Great or small; it is His vision. Every promise He spoke, it was Him telling you about the vision He has for you.

I Will Never Leave Thee
God can make Promises that HE can keep! When God tells us that He will never leave us nor forsake us, we can be assured that His promise is unbreakable from any and all reasons! As the old saying goes, “We can take God’s promises to the bank!” God cannot leave us in death because God can never die!

When It Hurts…
while we are enduring we can know for certain that GOD is on our side and HE is in control of our lives and our futures.
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we have experienced God’s waiting room of recovery for our lives and we can now climb down from the table of grief to feel the sunshine on our faces and to hear the birds sing

The Writing Of An Ancient Book (lacykitkat.wordpress.com)
you go and read in the temple on the fast day the words of Jehovah from the roll which you have written at my command. You shall read them to all the people of Judah who have come from their towns. Perhaps they will pray to Jehovah and each turn from his evil way; for great is the anger and wrath of Jehovah against this people.

Count-your-Daily-Blessing – Day Five (lostemerald.wordpress.com)
The blessing of Jehovah- that is what makes rich, and he adds no pain with it.
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Seeing how Jehovah continues to take care of his servants both materially and spiritually and how he cares for each one of them makes me feel privileged to be his servant. Nothing is worthier than that.

You Are Never Alone. (greatriversofhope.wordpress.com)
God is with you. He never leaves or forsakes you (Hebrews 13:5). Never proceed alone. The enemy will seek to isolate you from other Christians and from the Word. Pray in agreement, for there is power when two agree in prayer (Matthew 18:19).

The Secrets Of Psalm 91 (dianasymons.com)
Psalm 91 is an extraordinary psalm. It is the promise that God will protect you from sickness and danger, no matter how many people standing right next to you fall. It is the promise that He will answer when you call. It is the promise of long life and salvation. But not for everyone.

You . . . are taught by God to love one another.​ —1 Thess. 4:9. Whether young or old, brothers and sisters who are discouraged or depressed or who face other trials need our attention, encouragement, and comfort. (Prov. 12:25; Col. 4:11) We give proof that we truly love our brothers when we show by words and deeds […]

Recent Posts: Messiah For All

In Scripture, all things are directed towards a man who was a servant of servants, in whom people should come to have faith. First we saw the connection with Eve and her seed, and in this article you may see the connection with Abraham.

Already in the Old Testament we find the focus on a son of man who is called the son of God, who shall be the most pure set apart (holy) servant of God who was been told about in the Garden of Eden, to be the one bruised.

Many Old Testament writers wrote about the prophet to come, about whom is spoke in the book of Moses and who shall be the special “Seed of a woman” given by God and who will bruise Satan’s head whilst his heel would be bruised with nails on the wooden stake.

Jewish and Christian literature since the time of Yeshua or Jeshua have pointed to Genesis 3:15 as the first reference to the Messiah in the Torah. Genesis 3:15 NHEBJE I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his […]

The first human beings had chosen to go their own path. As any good father would do when his children had done something wrong, God punished them. But as a loving Father He in His great mercy promised for a solution and preserved David’s bloodline and the Messianic promise. Mankind had chosen Yet, we each […]

Recent Posts on: Stepping Toes

Many who call themselves Christian do like to follow Augustine, even more than Christ. they do agree with him that reading the Bible is no longer necessary once God had fully cultivated faith, hope, and love in us (On Christian Doctrine, 1.39). In other words, according to them, once we are mature in Christ, the […]

Pew Research Center asked thousands of Americans where they find meaning in life. Their responses were rich, thoughtful and varied. Here are just a few examples of what they told us… “That’s a gosh darn big question for a survey like this, I’m used to the check boxes. I find meaning in career, family, spiritual […]

GOD DESIGNED HUMAN NATURE FOR LOVE By Jesse Morrell Everything God created has a function and a design. God created human nature. Therefore, human nature has a proper function and a design. What is the proper function that human nature was designed by God for? “For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by […]

President Trump, long a trafficker in anti-Semitic stereotypes, treated American Jews to a classic anti-Semitic canard Tuesday afternoon. When asked about two Congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who had been barred from Israel at Trump’s own behest, he broke out an oldie but a goodie from the closet of anti-Semitic tropes. “Any Jewish people […]

There are two kinds of knowing – experience and understanding – and the confusion between them is the cause of all sorts of trouble for any thinking person – which is all of us. Experience is the knowing of things. It is exactly what appears to our senses precisely as it is without us doing […]

Recent Posts: From guestwriters

On a Facebook group Diane Cohn neatly put everything on a row concerning the position of God and His son Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, yes, I, am he; and 👉🏻there is no god beside me.👈🏻 I put to death, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; no one saves anyone […]

Dear friends, It’s horrifying — in the past year, an area the size of 500,000 soccer fields has been destroyed in the Amazon! Nearly half a BILLION trees torn down and gone… forever. This is how they do it: armed militia swarm into protected areas, and indigenous leaders who stand up to them are murdered. […]

Originally posted on Zion, Sion and Zsion News and Journal: Do Governments and Nations Lie? For hiding and protecting their crimes and criminals? Jesus was offered the kingdom over the whole world, if he only would commit a crime against the then Roman cesar as an act of worship to Antijehovah. This is one law…

We have never seen anything like this before! Right now, Thousands of wildfires are burning down the Amazon, with black smoke plunging entire cities into darkness… Ahead of the Group of Seven summit in France, French President Emmanuel Macron called the situation in Brazil an “international crisis” and vowed to make it a priority point of discussion. […]

They That Seek The Lord Shall Not Want (Psa. 34:10) WE are not to seek God for selfish ends, but in the self-effacing power of divine love. But the glorious paradox is that the more we selflessly seek God’s pleasure and glory, and the less we seek our own, the more inevitably and inexorably will […]

Recent Posts at: Relating to God

First of all to come to a good relationship with some one, one has to talk with that person and has to listen to what that person has to tell. God talks to the people by the way of His Word, presented to mankind by the many Bible translations, so that most people can read […]

The One Who created everything and Who gave His Word, did all He did with a purpose and out of love. The Bible teaches us that “God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Everything God does is motivated by love. Out of love created man in His image also with the intention to have a good relationship […]

In the previous writings we saw that the Divine Creator gave His Word to the world so that people could come to know Him. The Bible is a gift from God. It gives us information that we can’t find anywhere else. For example, it tells us that God created the heavens, the earth, and the […]

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